[TuT] How to Use uTorrent For Private Tracking !!

[Aurion]

Well,first of all Hey Guys !! How are you ?? Hope that you have liked my previous collections of TuTs,Guides & Tweaks !! Here I come again with another Handy TuT that most of you might use since most of us would like to experience the feeling of owning a Private Tracker LOL Anyway,let me bring it on,so grab your pens & papers and lets start with the outlines !!

If you've got a large amount of data to transfer from one place to another, we all know BitTorrent is an extremely efficient way of doing it.

But sometimes you may want to transfer data which you don't want to (or can't) upload to a tracker on the internet.

This is where uTorrent comes in handy, because it can act as your own private tracker.

You'll need a few things before you begin:


1. A recent copy of uTorrent. 1.7.7 is the latest version, there's no excuse not to use it.

2. Your external IP address. You can use What Is My IP Address? - Lookup IP, Hide IP, Change IP, Trace IP and more... ... to find this.

3. Your listen port in uTorrent. You can find this in uTorrent's Options > Preferences > Connection > Port used for incoming connections.

4. You must be clever/connectable! This won't work if you don't have port forwarding correctly configured.

Steps :

[b]1. Open up uTorrent and go Options > Preferences > Advanced.
2. Scroll down to find bt.enable_tracker and set it to True.
3. Restart uTorrent for this to take effect.

Now, create a new torrent. As usual, browse to find the file or folder you wish to share.

For the tracker url, use the following information:

http://your_ip_address:your_listen_port/announce

So, for example, if your IP address is 123.123.123.123 and your listen port is 54321 then you would put this as your tracker url:

http://123.123.123.123:54321/announce/

Remember : to tick 'Start Seeding'. Tick 'Private Torrent' to disable DHT and Peer Exchange for this torrent if you want to.

Now press 'Create and save as..' and save the .torrent file somewhere. uTorrent should now connect (to itself) and the tracker status should be 'working'. You'll note it has a 10 minute announce interval.

That's all you have to do,You can now send that .torrent file to someone, they can open it in their torrent client and start downloading the content.

P.S : If You want something more fancy than an IP address,then get yourself a private domain name from anywhere like DynDNS Free Dynamic DNS (DDNS) Service

Important Hints :

If the connection times out and can't find the tracker, you've done something wrong. Ensure you've got the correct IP address, port, and that uTorrent is definiately connectable from the outside. You can run uTorrent's test for that by going to Options > Speed Guide and click Test to figure out if port is forwarded properly. Also, ensure you have a colon separating the IP address and port number.

Hope this TuT would help you Tracking your own stuff,so NJoy Private Tracking !!

[anon]

1. A recent copy of uTorrent. 1.6 is the latest version, there's no excuse not to use it.

latest stable version is 1.7.7 ^^

also note uT's embedded tracker can help you track torrents in events like this when you don't want/can't up the .torrent to another tracker, but as the developers have stated, it isn't meant for anything needing security or large-scale

thanks for the tut